Attorneys in the News
Hooks
Wilkinson
Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial is pleased to welcome partner Jonathan Hooks and associate Ethan Wilkinson to the firm’s growing Birmingham office.
Johnson
McKitt
Claire Johnson and Shalyn McKitt have recently joined Balch & Bingham’s Birmingham office. Ms. Johnson joins as a member of the Environmental & Natural Resources Practice, and Ms. McKitt joins as a member of the Litigation Practice, with a focus on health care litigation. Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart LLP announces that Bret Thompson has joined the firm as a lateral hire, practicing in the areas of product liability, transpor- Thompson tation and insurance coverage and defense. Southern University Law Center student Crystal Armstrong has become the first
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recipient of Lightfoot, Franklin & White’s new annual Diversity Scholarship. The firm awarded Ms. Armstrong a $10,000 scholarship and a summer clerkship in the Birmingham office. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announces that Partner Ryan P. Robichaux has been elected as an Alabama State Bar commissioner for the 10th Judicial Circuit. Mr. Robichaux began his three-year term July 1.
a two-year term.
Armstrong
Robichaux
Smith
Dominick Feld Hyde proudly announces that Ragsdale Barry A. Ragsdale has joined the firm as a shareholder in the Litigation group. Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., announces that Beth Graham has rejoined the firm as an associate after her judicial clerkship with the Honorable Corey L. Maze, U.S. District Court. Walter F. McArdle, with Spain & Gillon LLC, was named as the co-chair of the Commercial Fraud Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute for
Balch & Bingham is honored to announce that David Boyd, a partner in both the firm’s Birmingham and Mont- Boyd gomery offices, was elected the sixth president of the Alabama Law Institute.
McArdle
Doty
Carol Ann Smith and Christopher Doty announce the formation of Smith & Doty, P.C., where they will specialize in complex business, employment, construction and civil litigation. The firm has moved to a new office located at 2700 U.S. 280, Suite 203W, Birmingham, AL 35223. Jenna M. Bedsole was recently elected to Managing Shareholder of Baker Donelson’s Birmingham Office. Ms. Bedsole will maintain her legal practice, Bedsole which is focused on representing employers in a broad range of employment matters. Laura Winston, a Corporate Real Estate attorney at Alabama Power Company, recently received her professional
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